I found this white cottony fungus on the palm seed. It was infected and causing the production of seed to be less due to the contamination and I still can't able to find out the source of contamination. What can I do to prevent this fungal infection on my seed? And may I know how to find out this fungus on palm seed based on the morphological observation in order to know the Genus of this fungus?
Filamentous (Aspergillus, Fusarium, Acremonium) or yeast (Candida, Trichosporon), a culture on SDA medium is necessery
Maybe, Schizophyllum Commune
Biological Control of Seedborne Pathogen of Oil Palm, Schizopyllum commune Fr. with Antagonistic Bacteria A. DIKIN1 , KAMARUZAMAN SIJAM, ZAINAL ABIDIN MIOR AHMAD AND IDRIS ABU SEMAN†
Interested in what you find out.
You could also perform genus specific PCR a DNA prep of the fungus.
I think Aspergillus is usually green.
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